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Routledge History of Photography


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This new series will publish research monographs and edited collections focusing on the history and theory of photography. These original, scholarly books may take an art historical, visual studies, or material studies approach. Interdisciplinary books are encouraged.

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The Market Photo Workshop in South Africa and the 'Born Free' Generation Remaking Histories

The Market Photo Workshop in South Africa and the 'Born Free' Generation: Remaking Histories

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Julie Bonzon
September 15, 2023

This study presents the history of the Market Photo Workshop (MPW) in Johannesburg and works produced by its new generation of photography students. Founded in 1989 by internationally renowned documentary photographer David Goldblatt, the MPW has reflected upon South African political struggles ...

The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography

The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Jane Simon
September 12, 2023

By carefully conceptualizing the domestic in relation to the self and the photographic, this book offers a unique contribution to both photography theory and criticism, and life-narrative studies. Jane Simon brings together two critical practices into a new conversation, arguing that artists who ...

The Photographic Invention of Whiteness The Visual Cultures of White Atlantic Worlds

The Photographic Invention of Whiteness: The Visual Cultures of White Atlantic Worlds

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Stephanie Polsky
July 28, 2023

Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that were common in the colonial Atlantic World of the mid-to-late nineteenth century. With the advent of the daguerreotype in the mid-nineteenth century, White ...

Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement

Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement

1st Edition

By Rotem Rozental
March 24, 2023

By entering and critically re-activating the Zionist photographic archive established by the Division of Journalism and Propaganda of the Jewish National Fund, this research examines its rippling impact on civil landscapes prior to 1948 in Palestine, and its lasting impact on the region to date. ...

Photographing, Exploring and Exhibiting Russian Turkestan Central Asia on Display

Photographing, Exploring and Exhibiting Russian Turkestan: Central Asia on Display

1st Edition

By Inessa Kouteinikova
December 30, 2022

This book illuminates the crucial role photography played from the very beginning of the Russian colonial presence in Central Asia and its entanglement with the orientalist legacy that followed. Inessa Kouteinikova examines these under-studied materials while also addressing the photographic ...

Empire, Early Photography and Spectacle The Global Career of Showman Daguerreotypist J.W. Newland

Empire, Early Photography and Spectacle: The Global Career of Showman Daguerreotypist J.W. Newland

1st Edition

By Elisa deCourcy, Martyn Jolly
December 19, 2022

James William Newland’s (1810–1857) career as a showman daguerreotypist began in the United States but expanded into Central and South America, across the Pacific to New Zealand and colonial Australia and onto India. Newland used the latest developments in photography, theatre and spectacle to...

The Selfie, Temporality, and Contemporary Photography

The Selfie, Temporality, and Contemporary Photography

1st Edition

By Claire Raymond
December 19, 2022

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal episteme of selfie practice. Claire Raymond investigates how the selfie’s involvement with time and self emerges from capitalist ideologies of identity and ...

Eroticism and Photography in 1930s French Magazines Risqué Shop Windows

Eroticism and Photography in 1930s French Magazines: Risqué Shop Windows

1st Edition

By Alix Agret
October 31, 2022

Drawing on a panorama of materials from 1930s France, Eroticism and Photography in 1930s French Magazines takes a new approach to studying a certain type of image from a certain time. Previously untapped by historians, magazines such as Paris Magazine, Paris Sex Appeal, Pages Folles, Pour lire à ...

How Photography Changed Philosophy

How Photography Changed Philosophy

1st Edition

By Daniel Rubinstein
August 12, 2022

By analysing the philosophical lineage of notions of representation, time, being, light, exposure, image, and truth, this book argues that photography is the visual manifestation of the philosophical account of how humans encounter beings in the present. Daniel Rubinstein argues that traditional ...

Diverse Voices in Photographic Albums “These Are Our Stories”

Diverse Voices in Photographic Albums: “These Are Our Stories”

1st Edition

Edited By Mary Trent, Kris Belden-Adams
July 29, 2022

Through a variety of case studies by global scholars from diverse academic fields, this book explores photographic-album practices of historically marginalized figures from a range of time periods, geographic locations, and socio-cultural contexts. Their albums' stories span various racial, ethnic,...

Photography and Political Repressions in Stalin’s Russia Defacing the Enemy

Photography and Political Repressions in Stalin’s Russia: Defacing the Enemy

1st Edition

By Denis Skopin
March 30, 2022

This book is devoted to the phenomenon of removal of people declared "public enemies" from group photographs in Stalin’s Russia. The book is based on long-term empirical research in Russian archives and includes 57 photographs that are exceptional in terms of historical interest: all these images ...

Italian Neorealist Photography Its Legacy and Aftermath

Italian Neorealist Photography: Its Legacy and Aftermath

1st Edition

By Antonella Russo
December 31, 2021

This book offers an analysis of the socio-historical conditions of the rise of postwar Italian photography, considers its practices, and outlines its destiny. Antonella Russo provides an incisive examination of Neorealist photography, delineates its periodization, traces its instances and its ...

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